Playscripts.com is an online community for playwrights and for people who are seeking scripts for professional, community or school theater productions.
This website is one of many valuable resources for emerging writers. For example, in an Introduction to Creative Writing class, the assignment to write your own script is, for many students, overwhelming, especially if your exposure to live theater is limited or nonexistent. You might wonder: What makes a good story worth telling on the stage? How many actors do I need? How do I find the balance between too many stage directions and not enough? What about set design and lighting and costumes? The best way to find answers to your questions is to read what’s out there. Read work by professional playwrights, aspiring playwrights, and teenage playwrights and consider what captures your attention and holds it. Click on this link to read some scripts that are posted on Playscripts.com that are seeking production. Find a script for a one-act play and write a mini-review. Here’s a caveat: You can’t all choose the same one! That means you might have to scroll through the list past page one or even page two to answer the question: What do you like (or dislike) about this script and why?
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